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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1 - 6..

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what does Ellie ask Will while they are chatting?
(a) About Jennifer.
(b) Where he goes to school.
(c) Where he lives.
(d) Why he came over to her house.

2. Why is Ellie running with her father in the woods?
(a) They are trying to catch up to the neighborhood people in the run program.
(b) They are chasing their Boston terrier.
(c) She is supporting his exercise routine.
(d) They are chasing a fox.

3. What is kept at the history museum in Washington, D. C.?
(a) A book that had been in Ellie's family for generations.
(b) A rare antique humidor.
(c) The sword Ellie's father is writing about.
(d) One of the first anagrams ever discovered from ancient Greece.

4. Where does Will's father work now?
(a) The New York Times.
(b) The Naval Academy.
(c) The Pentagon.
(d) Frodor's Publishing.

5. What does Ellie wonder about what she saw at the bottom of the ravine?
(a) If that might be brier rabbit.
(b) If the gopher can get up the steep banks of the ravine.
(c) How the man got down there without a machete.
(d) If that is the same fox she and her father saw earlier.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what is Ellie's father writing a book?

2. What poem does Ellie trade with someone else so she does not have to do the one assigned her?

3. Why did Will look Ellie up in the school directory?

4. What poem is Ellie assigned to write a report on for class?

5. Where are Ellie and her parents living at the opening of the story?

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